{"id":848843,"date":"2026-04-02T08:23:16","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T08:23:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/848843\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T08:23:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T08:23:16","slug":"how-many-notre-dame-players-will-be-selected-in-the-nfl-draft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/848843\/","title":{"rendered":"How many Notre Dame players will be selected in the NFL Draft?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">ESPN\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/draft2026\/story\/_\/id\/48299038\/2026-nfl-mock-draft-seven-rounds-257-picks-projections-matt-miller\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Matt Miller recently put out a 7 round mock NFL Draft;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Matt Miller recently put out a 7 round mock NFL Draft&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Matt Miller recently put out a 7 round mock NFL Draft<\/a>, and he has six Notre Dame Football players selected in the first 190 picks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Round 1, Pick 4: RB Jeremiyah Love \u2014 Tennessee Titans<br \/>Round 2, Pick 49: RB Jadarian Price \u2014 Minnesota Vikings<br \/>Round 3, Pick 71: WR Malachi Fields \u2014 Washington Commanders<br \/>Round 4, Pick 136: TE Eli Raridon \u2014 New Orleans Saints<br \/>Round 5, Pick 165: OL Billy Schrauth \u2014 Buffalo Bills<br \/>Round 6, Pick 190: OL Aamil Wagner \u2014 New Orleans Saints<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">But is that all?<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The six picked in this mock draft were all NFL Combine participants, and six is a solid number. Notre Dame had 6 picked in 2025, 7 in 2024, 9 in 2021, and 6 in both 2020 and 2019. So\u2026 it\u2019s a number that is pretty much on par with what the program has been putting into the NFL.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Still\u2026 I firmly believe it will end up being 7 this year. Maybe it will even be in round 7 to make it a straight flush. I think we should end up hearing WR Will Pauling\u2019s name being called before the seven rounds of the NFL Draft are over. While Pauling\u2019s numbers don\u2019t jump off of the stat sheet, he was fairly productive, and maybe could have been more so at Notre Dame if year two CJ Carr was his quarterback instead of year one CJ Carr. Pauling was a one and done player for the Irish and was still selected to be a team captain for the Irish, so he\u2019s a high character guy who also just ran a 4.37 40 yard dash time at Notre Dame\u2019s pro day.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Maybe that wasn\u2019t the best sell job, but I\u2019m not Will Pauling\u2019s agent. It\u2019s just a gut feeling that someone is going to pick him up late in the draft because of what he brings to the locker room and because of how he can fly on the turf.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">What do you think? Does Pauling get selected? Does Jordan Botelho or Junior Tuihalamaka sneak in there somewhere? What\u2019s the real number according to you? Sound off in the comments below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ESPN\u2019s Matt Miller recently put out a 7 round mock NFL Draft, and he has six Notre Dame&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":848844,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[19621,90535,7213,53,25688,32697,7,27001,7805,30721,27002,111187,259,55,6,15,1401,4732,1418,57306,394,111,56194,116264],"class_list":{"0":"post-848843","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl-draft","8":"tag-aamil-wagner","9":"tag-billy-schrauth","10":"tag-boise-state-broncos","11":"tag-buffalo-bills","12":"tag-cj-carr","13":"tag-eli-raridon","14":"tag-football","15":"tag-jadarian-price","16":"tag-jeremiyah-love","17":"tag-jordan-botelho","18":"tag-malachi-fields","19":"tag-michael-caterina-imagn","20":"tag-minnesota-vikings","21":"tag-new-orleans-saints","22":"tag-nfl","23":"tag-nfl-draft","24":"tag-notre-dame","25":"tag-notre-dame-fighting-irish","26":"tag-notre-dame-football","27":"tag-notre-dame-stadium","28":"tag-tennessee-titans","29":"tag-washington-commanders","30":"tag-will-pauling","31":"tag-zion-washington"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116334153109617489","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/848843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=848843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/848843\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/848844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=848843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=848843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=848843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}